At our bus stop Jasper jumps off, then I do with Jack and co behind us. Jasper doesn't notice me at first until Jack calls out "What no goodbye kiss with your secret lover - Jasper?" Jasper turns around and sees me.
I keep walking, I don't want to know if they fight. It's not my place to try and stop everything bad right! Plus Jasper isn't much of anything to me besides my savior. I walk past Jasper who's looking towards Jack but instead of responding he turns and walks beside me "So B, what's your plans for today?" I ignore him but he asks again
"B? Hey what's wrong? Did I do or say something wrong?" he grabs my arms causing me to stop dead in my tracks
"I'm fine Jasper - I'm just over drama. I don't need any in my life. I've had enough for a lifetime. Why can't things just be simple?" he looks at me, lifting his sun glasses above his head and I can't help but melt into his caring eyes
"Jasper" i whisper as he moves a little closer.
Our faces inches apart "B. They don't mean anything really, it's just a game" I pull back realizing we were moving closer to each other and drowning out the world around us
"A game? Breaking girl’s hearts is a game to you?" I ask and he's taken back
"No, I mean yes. Look I'm a bad boy I have a reputation to up hold"
"By using girls?" now I was getting pissed off
"I won't sleep with any of them?"
"And why would I care?" i said as I started to walk off, he soon caught up to me
"Because I know you care and i care too but you went and got a boyfriend and broke my heart remember. Things could be so different if you wanted them that way?" I stop and look at him.
The nerve of him suggesting that I liked him was propitious! Or was it?
I kept walking without saying a word until i got to my street. I looked at Jasper who was following me like a lost puppy. I sighed, I knew I couldn't stay mad it just wasn't me "Jasp" I call out and he runs up
"I'm sorry. I've had a bad day. Did you want to come over?" I never really had friends over, yeah they came over we did our homework but nothing more.
April and Lily have never slept here and asking my dad for a guy to sleep over would be just wrong and he'd so crazy over the notion that a teenage boy was sleeping in his house "Sure" Jasper says smiling at me, making me snap out of it
"Cool, Em should be home any minute"
"You're sister?"
"Yeah she goes to the special school. They pick her up and drop her off. Helps families like us"
"Like you?" he asks as we cross the room
"Yeah, you know broke arse bums" he laughs as we get to the gate
"You have a sense of humor. I like that" we both smile as I let us in.
"I need to wait outside for Em, she has this thing that no one will be here for her and leave her alone" he nods
"That's cool" we place our bags on the ground and we go sit on the porch.
Jasper lifts up his hoodie and put on his sun glasses as we sit on the steps of our house "So B tell me about yourself. You're a very secluded, shy girl? Whose hard to read" I look out into our garden which remains me of mum.
She liked flowers and I remember the day she made us all go out in the hot sun and plant these flowers she's just bought. It was a family thing and we ended up dirty, wet and not many of the flowers got planted but we had fun that day and now she'd be so happy to see her flowers had grown and blossomed every year since she's been gone "B!" I hear faintly
"Ha, what?" I said in a stunned voice.
I hear him chuckle "Day dreaming?” he asks and I blush a little as I look down at my hands
"Yeah sort of. Life hasn't always been easy for me Jasp. I lost my Mum a few years ago and it was hard to go through, the guys at school. They were there for me and Jamal came past everyday to check upon me.."
"So you two go way back?" I nod
"Yeah, since before high school really. We are pretty close although Lily and April are more distant with me because I'm different to them but they can be nice - sometimes" he smiles
"Those girls are full on!" I laugh
"Yep, always have and always will" then there was silence.
